Minimalist Tiki breaks down rums into 6 categories:
- Aged Jamaican Rum
- Lightly Aged/Filtered Rum
- Moderately Aged Rum
- Aged Demerara Rum
- Overproof Demerara Rum
- Aged Agricole Rum
My notes on my go-tos or what I’m looking for in each category:
Aged Jamaican Rum
- Smith & Cross. It is a little higher proof, but so good.
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- Monymusk Special Reserve
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- Rum-Bar Gold
- Coruba Dark
Lightly Aged/Filtered Rum
- Banks 5 Island
- McCoy 3
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- Hidden Harbor White Rum
- Plantation 3
Moderately Aged Rum
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Appleton Signature Blend
- Denizen Merchant’s Reserve
- Gosling’s Black Seal
Aged Demerara Rum
- McCoy 5
- Can get at Dylan’s Wine Cellar, Peekskill
- El Dorado 5 Year
- Hamilton 86
- Plantation 5
- El Dorado 12
Overproof Demerara Rum
- Plantation OFTD
- Hamilton 151
- Lemon Hart 151
Aged Agricole Rum
- Rhum J.M Gold
- Clément Select Barrel
- Neisson Eleve Sous Bois
What some local stores carry
- Dylan’s Wine Cellar
- Smith & Cross
- McCoy 3 and 5
- Monymusk Special Reserve
- Ordered for me:
- Plantation OFTD
- Rum-Bar Gold
- Beach Wine and Liquor
- Appleton Signature
- Barbancourt 3 star and 5 star
- Gosling Black Seal
- Myers
- Mount Gay
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- All Seasons Yorktown
- Appleton Signature, 8, and 12
- Angostura 5
- Barbancourt 5 star
- Flor de Cana 7 and 12
- Gosling Black Seal
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Plantation 5 and Xo
- Real McCoy 3, 5, and 12
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- Mohegan Wines
- Appleton Signature
- El Dorado 5
- Flor de Cana 12 and Anejo
- Gosling Black Seal
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Myers
- Plantation 3
- Sao Paulo Cachaca
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- Westchester Wine Warehouse
- Stew Leonard’s Yonkers
- Beacon Wine & Spirits
- Plantation Dark, Pineapple, 3, Barbados Grand Reserve
- Wray & Nephew Overproof
- Pusser’s Navy
- Barbancourt 5 and 15
- Gosling’s Black and Gold
- El Dorado 15
- Angostura 7
- Van Wyck, Croton
- Plantation 3
- Pusser’s Navy
- Velho Cachaca
- Leblon Cachaça
- Wray and Nephew
- Flor de Cana 4 and Gold
- Row 13, Cortlandt
- Lemon Hart 151
- Wray & Nephew
- Pusser’s Blue
- Gosling’s Black Seal
- Mount Gay Eclipse
- Cuca Cachaca
- Paute Zhumir
- SLD Peekskill
- Wray & Nephew
- Plantation Island of Fiji
- Real McCoy 3, 5, and 12
- Dodds Millwood
- Doctor Bird
- Lemon Hart 151
- Appleton Estate
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